Periodic Reporting for period 1 - EPOSSCIGOV (From Barataria to Utopia: Economic-Positivism, Scientific Governance, and Colonial Discourses of International Order, 1880-1940)

EPOSSCIGOV set out to investigate the rise of specific practices of ‘scientific’ colonial governance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, how they were informed by hitherto unexplored economic-positivist legal theory gaining currency in British and Australian...